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Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (born June 25, 1925) is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century.

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It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Building, Part, Prettiness, Unusual

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Circumstances, Poignancy, Quality, Tension

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

Apse, Children, Italian, Naked, Pei, Vulgar

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

Anomalies, Break, Circumstances, Giving, Order, Validity

As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered. . . As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.

Writing, Artist, Past, Attracted, Guided, Habit

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Communication, Postmodernism, Should, Space, Turns

Main Street is almost alright.

Alright, Main Street, Street, Streets

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